Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Race and Emma Foody

Monday 8th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Steve Race (Exeter) (Lab)]

5. What steps he is taking to reduce the number of children in poverty.

[Emma Foody (Cramlington and Killingworth) (Lab/Co-op)]

18. What steps he is taking to reduce the number of children in poverty.

[The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Dame Diana Johnson)]

At the autumn Budget we built on the substantial action that we have already taken to tackle child poverty and announced the removal of the two-child limit, which will lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2029-30. That rises to 550,000 alongside other measures, such as the expansion of free school meals set out in our child poverty strategy, which was published on Friday. The Secretary of State for Education will be making an oral statement on the child poverty strategy this afternoon.